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netsky
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since 2005-03-29

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0 posted 2005-03-29 08:36 PM

This poem is placed into public domain.
Author credit is my only request in the unlikely event any reader finds this item useful enough to transplant elsewhere.

Better effect is gotten for group sharing  by changing "I" to "We".

The poem was created last December to kick-start a photo thread at another forum.
We have eight thousand reads of the picture thread since then.

Have seen some otherwise shy, hiding people take heart from group encouragements to install their pictures for public view.

It is all about making folks feel secure.
Looks don't matter.
Faces don't matter except that as humans,
we have an inborn curiosity and need to put a face to a voice.
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Face Off

Are you heavy?  Are you thin?
Don't you like the face you're in?
Largese flesh sigs' heaven heart;
Inspired Reuben's ample art

Today that fash' has grown to thin...
But don't you like the face you're in?
Don't hide behind cold screen of dark
Comforter warmth spreads from this heart

I love I love the face you're in
Old or Young or Graced or Thin
I don't I don't care less one bit
Your face is mine
I'm loving it

http://forum.poetryconnection.net/viewtopic.php?t=4967
where it first applied

http://forum.poetryconnection.net/viewtopic.php?t=4967&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=315
and in the "we" form for group application

[This message has been edited by netsky (03-29-2005 09:17 PM).]

Martie

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1 posted 2005-03-29 09:03 PM

Hi Netsky....welcome to Pip! I noticed that you haven't added a photo to your profile. With a poem like this one, seems like you should have a photo. It's easy to do. I look forward to more of your poetry.

Sunshine

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2 posted 2005-03-29 09:05 PM

Reid, you'll be able to add your photo to your profile soon enough...after 50 posts, I believe...

in the meantime, I like this. A face we "face" daily in the mirror...trying to be objective with ourselves, so many finding subjective reasons to hide behind ways to better us....

me?

The most I do is color my hair...simply because .... I like it.

LOL...

Welcome to Passions!

Martie

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3 posted 2005-03-29 09:11 PM

Opps...sorry Sunshine...and Netsky...I didn't realize that you had to wait.

netsky
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since 2005-03-29

Posts 148
Miami

4 posted 2005-03-29 09:19 PM

My photo can be seen at the first link.  The oct. '04 pic of me with "petey" is my official mug shot.

thank you... fifty posts is around the corner.

(i'll need help from someone to zoom and crop my face from the doggie picture.. then it can be my avatar.  Either -that- or this one that really is -me-

ha ha
http://img105.exs.cx/img105/2829/452fn.jpg

i do like that one.

Here is myself at fifty- it's a lucky shot, I assure you.  I don't color hair or do botox.. All I am at age fifty I owe to rotting from the -inside- only.
http://img108.exs.cx/img108/6737/peteynmecropped2ht.jpg

  Dorian Gay

Sunshine

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5 posted 2005-03-29 09:24 PM

Netsky...an admin can help, if you wish. And I've been known to help a lot of folks.

So don't be a stranger.

Nan

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6 posted 2005-03-29 09:27 PM

Fifty posts to include a photo in a profile... but one who might be adept at html could figure a way to include such within a thread...

netsky
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since 2005-03-29

Posts 148
Miami

7 posted 2005-03-29 09:30 PM

Hi Nan.

I am no adept.  I do "imageshack"

imageshack.us is free, no registration, is so simple to use.

I'll try to install a self opener?  Is that possible?

Step right in?  Am I welcome and safe here?  WHY

thank you!

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

8 posted 2005-03-29 09:32 PM

I have a feeling you're going to enjoy it here...
just as much as we're going to enjoy having you!!

Welcome aboard netsky!!
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

For it was not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
It was not my lips you kissed
But my soul

netsky
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since 2005-03-29

Posts 148
Miami

9 posted 2005-03-29 09:35 PM

So, I have a terrible habit: "T'erses", as I dub them.
-four lines
abab rhyme
-final line is an italicized result or summary-

=====

Nancy greets netsky right in time
wishing him a longer life.
net' accepts in the nick of rhyme
there's no hidden Passions knife

===

thank you all for the love
====in progress:

Sunshine harkens up a warmth
not plains, but rich brilliance
Gold and Yellow, Young and Mellow
my lasting rememberance

====

A man, a plan, then here comes Nan
grants easement for waterway.
Gracious She, she gives free land
Panama hats all tip today

[This message has been edited by netsky (03-29-2005 10:10 PM).]

Sunshine

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10 posted 2005-03-29 10:00 PM

AHA! So you ARE the Reid I found when following your name upon the net. Methinks you might belie your years, yet you do not. So much so...that it is pleasant. Again, welcome to Passions...

Now, enjoy!

Nan

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11 posted 2005-03-29 10:15 PM

Netsky met NanciNess on the way
And PiPsters all gathered around
Telling him – Reid, not in Q&A
For Open is far more renowned!

netsky
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12 posted 2005-03-29 10:43 PM

I'd go check this all out.

Midnitesun

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13 posted 2005-03-29 11:12 PM

OK, I confess. I am not fat, neither am I thin but I love the face I live in! LOL.
Welcome to these blue pages, where you can wear whatever face you want to wear, well.. almost.

netsky
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14 posted 2005-03-30 02:56 AM

http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=

Add the above as prefix to your poem's url.

All will be revizzled

for example, -this- very poem is translated by a click all ready to go:

Do yo shizzle?

http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=/pip/Forum92/HTML/001345.html

Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09

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15 posted 2005-03-30 07:54 AM

well at times I'm fat, at times I'm thin
but either way I enjoyed this first post
that you brought in!
Very well done. I am pleased to make your acquintance, and hope you enjoy your time here.

I really want to care,
I want to feel something,
let me dig a little deeper
nah, still nothing~
my give a DAMN is busted. Jodee

passing shadows
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displaced

16 posted 2005-03-30 08:02 AM

I've found that we also have the need to put a voice to a face.

I enjoyed this thread. Welcome to Passions.

miscellanea
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17 posted 2005-03-30 08:47 AM

Add one miscellanea to your list of happy readers! Enjoyed the poem as well as your responses. I do believe we're in for a lot of wit!

miscee

Susan Caldwell
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18 posted 2005-03-30 08:56 AM

I confess...

I googled you..

and read this poem before.

But you invited us to do so.

I am intrigued.

Welcome to Pip!

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

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just out of reach

19 posted 2005-03-30 10:04 AM

I'm confused....but some would say that is normal for me.

Welcome netsky. Enjoy yourself here.
Chris

"The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze."
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

netsky
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since 2005-03-29

Posts 148
Miami

20 posted 2005-03-30 02:14 PM

love and attention I don't deserve

but, being a sponge, it is all taken up.

squeeze me for replies.

-and you did-

umm! thanks for of these kindnesses

"good hearts and gentle people"

you all are that. enough goosh.

let's prey...(owls as poets in critical)

PS: I've a lot of reading to do so I'll catch up on -your- works in time. This all more attention than I deserve; certainly enough for now. thank you again,
reid

reid

[This message has been edited by netsky (03-30-2005 03:45 PM).]

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